greek philosophers, including epicurus who taught that pleasure is the beginning and end of living happily were very much alive in the minds of cultured romans. but the romans copied, collected and imitated greek art for their own reasons. in greece artemis, goddess of the hunt, belonged in a public temple. a roman placed it in the privacy of his garden -perhaps an allusion to fields teeming with game evoked in these bronze sculptures. apollo, the god of learning, still brought light to the world -as a roman lamp stand. alexander the great, once master of the world, was commemorated in a bronze statuette. the powerful hercules became a garden ornament. the elite built substantial art collections. they also ordered reproductions of greek works that appealed to them. several examples of the three graces were unearthed at pompeii, suggesting a single prototype offered by workshops on the bay of naples. the daughters of zeus represent plenty, joy, and beauty. that ige continued to appeal to artists and connoisseurs through the ages. the works of art they commissioned -either for their own coll